Empirical Studies of Copyright Litigation. This presentation was part of the conference for the forthcoming Research Handbook – Economics of Intellectual Property Rights –
Volume II Empirical Studies. Northwestern University (August 5, 2015).

Orphan Works as Grist for the Data Mill, UC Berkeley, April 2012. This is an mp4 file with audio synced to the powerpoint. It is a large file, so you need to download it via a dropbox link. Runtime is just over 12 minutes.

A presentation about Copyright and Mass-Digitization and the Strategic Importance of Data-mining (Mass Digitization and Big Data, London 2013). Presented at the CREATe/Wellcome Trust Symposium “Archives and Copyright: Developing an Agenda for Reform” 27 September 2013, Wellcome Trust, London.

[summary] Recent proposals to address library digitization through variations of compulsory licensing raise some important questions about the justification for compulsory licenses, the institutional design considerations that should go into any compulsory license regime and the relationship between fair use and compulsory licensing. For the most part, compulsory licenses are no substitute for fair use. Although fair use can be explained in terms of ‘market failure’ in the most abstract sense, in practice most fair uses are not simply the result of high cost of transacting, or if they are, these are not the kinds of transaction costs that can be resolved by a one-size-fits-all compulsory license. Compulsory licenses can be socially beneficial in theory, but they can be extremely problematic to administer in practice. A good compulsory license system may be an effective complement to fair use, but the case for crowding out fair use with compulsory licenses is weak.

In March 2013 I gave the Keynote Address at the Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum. The address is based on my paper, Predicting Fair Use. The presentation is available on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lccyaKucv7c).